When the family moved to the coast, he began work, aged seven, as a shoe-shine boy.

ECONOMIST: Peru

They appreciate his Indian roots and his inspiring rise from shoe-shine boy to presidential candidate.

ECONOMIST: Peru

The latter particularly took off in 2009 with a series of wooden shoe-shine stands he modeled after the kind that line the Shine King, a community hub in west Chicago.

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